Bring It Home Toni!

She's our one last hope for an Olympic medal. Welterweight Mary Antoinette Rivero will compete in Taekwondo tomorrow, Friday. She'll face off with Croatian Sandra Saric.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Go for the Gold!

A Different Chuseok Harvest

August 18, 2008
BBC News

For decades, Lee Tae-joon has wondered what became of his cousin, his childhood companion, who disappeared without trace at the start of the Korean War.

Now he thinks he knows the answer.

At an abandoned cobalt mine near the South Korean city of Daegu, evidence of a massacre is being slowly uncovered.

With brushes and trowels, working ankle-deep in water, a team of archaeologists is sweeping away the top-soil to reveal a mass of human bones.

It is thought that this cold tomb contains the bodies of up to 3,000 people who were executed and then thrown into a vertical mine shaft.

Mr Lee believes his cousin was one of them.

"My heart really breaks when I think that all this killing took place without any judicial process, and by our own forces," he said.

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Can't Let Go

Don't give me that stare,
It rends too much to bear.
Reserve that perfect smile,
It is a poison in beguile.
I'd drink it, though I know.
I'd stare at it, till I turn to stone.

Prison Library

In the library of solitary life
there is
On an old wooden shelf, chapping
It’s pages kept to itself
Gasping for breath that no one has given its letters.

A hundred silent touches
Each were mistaken; only false hopes
The book shall never be read.

When the library opens
It is still, and it waits
For a hundred dozen fingertips
There is one that can lift it from
The dusty wooden shelf.

First Team Building

No one in our team was late nor absent from work so we were given a team building fund for the month of August. We went to see Wall-e, ate a bombastic dinner at Shakey's and played till we drop in Time Zone.

Team Rio:


Karl, Me, Sir Matt:

Ducks do Turn into Swans

There is nothing permanent in this world except change.

The Face Shop makes nothing permanent.
Ergo, I still can be changed.

If you happen to be in Beijing...

...greet them for me. ^^